The B -Side in boxing. B -Side shit. B -Side.
B -Side. And the B -Side. You got a B -Side.
The B -Side. B -Side. B -Side. B -Side. The B
-Side thing. This is the B -Sides Boxing Podcast.
Timer's going. Alright. motherfucking boxing
b -sides back up in your ears, boys. I am joined
by the comrades. Josh, Saul, how goes it? Welcome
back. We are back. Still working on becoming
Chinese now. Let me see here. We got a little
bit of MMA to share. Just... Extending the hand
of friendship to our fellows over at Ultimate
FN Casuals. UFC 324 on January 24th. There were
a few fights on here that are, if you're into
MMA, worth checking out. Let's see. Atteba Gautier
got a UD over Andrei Pulayev. Not quite what
you would hope from the prospect Gautier. but
nonetheless a dominant performance. Umar Nurmagomedov
pitched a shutout over Davis and Figueredo. Figueredo
turned in a spirited performance, but it's pretty
obvious he's on his way out the door. Blah, blah,
blah. Justin Gaethje beats the shit out of Paddy
Pimblitt. Boy, oh boy. I actually made a comment
about it last week. I don't know if I can include
it here, but I was saying that that was the best
fight on the card because it was like a boxing
fight. Stand up. Yep. Also very nice because
Pimplet lost. Yeah. That too. Always helps. He's
like a Saudi American. Or not a Saudi American.
Saudi American. That's crazy. That's fucking
crazy. Hey, guys. We're filming this late at
night. I'm fucking tired. Yeah, my dog literally
just fucking shit everywhere. My girlfriend just
broke up with me because of what Frost said.
Because of what I said. Because you made her
watch Zufa. No, no. But no, my dog did shit everywhere,
though. Uh, fuck. Yeah, Pimblitt drops the ball.
Gaethje, he's an Arizona guy, like me, so I'm
happy to see him win, but he's not long for the
sport at this point, so it's curious what he
does from here. If you want more MMA talk, Ultimate
effing casuals. Wherever you're listening to
this, you can find that too. Into some boxing
news. Callum Smith versus David Morrell. The
interim WBO light heavyweight title is going
to purse bid. What are we thinking here? Callum
Smith, he's at the tail end of his career, but
he has... shown life. And David Morrell is David
Morrell. It's a good fight. Yeah, it's a good
fight. It's a good fight. One thing I will say
is it's definitely not going to be on a PBC card.
No. For sure. Because if PBC wanted it, they
would have... They would have bid. Yeah, they
would have bid. So I think it's going to end
up being on a ring card. Or hosted by Madstone,
but we'll see. Man, I would prefer to shit in
my fucking pants than have the Saudis win these
bits, man. Yeah. We'll see what happens with
it, though. But, in other news, Christian Mbili
has been elevated to full champion. for the WBC
at 168. His next opponent is likely to be Lester
Martinez. It's not certain, but it is definitely
going in that direction. What are we thinking?
Christian Mbili, has he done enough to earn this?
The draw with Martinez does, to me, raise questions
of whether he rates the full title. But I guess
the rematch would settle those questions. What
do you guys think? Yes. I just want to see Lester
get it. Agree. It'd be so satisfying for Lester
to just get that shit. The first Pro Box champion
of the year? Of the year, yeah. Pro Box revolution
here. This is going to lead up to a Pro Box pay
-per -view. No, they wouldn't do that. They're
not that. I don't think they're those type of
guys. No, not at all. Not at all. Oslis Iglesias
versus Pavel Siljagin for the IBF 168 title.
They had to go down the list quite a ways to
find somebody willing to fight. iglesias uh i
think we should do a b -sides sit down watch
a little bit of tape on pavel and make a determination
of when iglesias is gonna fucking ice him or
if because i'm gonna be honest i i'm not getting
to know who the hell this guy is the contrarian
No, I'm being honest. Who is this guy? That's
what the... That's what the tape... Have you
seen his fights? The tape studies. Yes, actually.
I got convinced by the Discord to go watch his
fights. No, I'm talking about the other guy,
Pavel. Oh, no. I thought you were talking about
Iglesias, and I'm like, you could see it. Oh,
my God. Oh, no, no. I've seen Iglesias so many
times. I'm talking about Pavel. Who is this guy?
Listen, man. He's the guy... who has the balls
to fight Iglesias, so he gets my respect. 100%,
yeah. I mean, the thing is that I know is that
all the guys that skipped him know who he is,
but they're afraid to fight him. High risk, low
reward type of fights. Of course you're going
to get a... I'm assuming this guy sounds Russian.
He is. Or some sort of Eastern European. Yeah,
so of course they're going to fight. I... From
what I've seen from Iglesias, he's going to win,
but I've got to see Pavel fight before I can
make a determination. But the fact that I haven't
heard about him that much kind of tells me already
what I need to know. We'll see. That's what I
mean when I say we should do a B -sides tape
study. Tape study. And we're not deciding if
Iglesias is going to win. i mean like get the
fuck out of here uh if the canelo and munguia
and callum simpson are fucking turning it down
my man sitting at rank like six or seven let's
get fucking real here but it's it would be good
to like place some bets where where does the
finish happen Round four. Four to six. Four to
six is fair. I wonder if Iglesias is going to
do tape study. Does he even need to at this point?
Well, he should. He's a fighter. Yeah, he should.
Moving on. I know that the world has been waiting.
And waiting to hear news on Oscar Valdez. He's
a promotional free agent. The way I put it to
Shanada was this is probably a good time to get
off the ship. The top rank ship. Things are not
going well right now. Not a bad place for a guy
like Oscar Valdez to go. But in better news,
I suppose, on the Wood -Warrington rematch card
on February 21st, David Allen has a fight signed.
Ishmael Davis, I believe, is going to be defending
his British and Commonwealth titles. Why those
are separate at this point, I don't know. And
Molly McCann, Meatball Molly, is also going to
be fighting. So, isn't that a good time? Juan
Francisco Estrada versus Tenshin Nasukawa. All
signs are pointing to April. Do you think there's
a fighter that Shinada hates more than Tenshin
Nasukawa? Probably Shakur Stevenson. You think
so? Yeah, she's taking on the T .O. role. True.
I mean, she's not going to tell you much more
about this fight than we can. We can just give
you the basic Estrada has a pretty good chance
of winning. But she can go into detail why. So
you guys should go to Boxing4Dark and listen
to the gang there. Yeah. As much as I love...
Estrada's been one of my favorites for quite
some time. He is at the tail end of his career,
moving up to 118. I am also a bit of a Tension
fan. No denying that. But, yeah, Tension is at
the place where he's supposed to beat guys like
Estrada. So, I don't know. I guess that's the
best you can make of it. All right. That's all
I got on the news front. Into the recaps. Friday,
January 23rd. The premiere of Zufa Boxing on
Paramount+. Boy, this was certainly a card. It
was slop. It was slop. Yeah, it wasn't great.
I will say on the undercard, Troy Nash is a solid
prospect. He got a UD over Jacob Ramos, which
was a dominant performance that you would expect
from a 5 -0 fighter at the six -round level.
Robert Merriweather is another, what I thought
was a good prospect, that had quite a bit of
trouble with Cesar Correa. Another six -round
fighter and didn't do, he didn't get the job
done as you would expect from like a grade A
prospect. Unfortunately. Moving up the bill.
Not a whole lot going on. 360 Promotions is the
direct feeder into Zufa. If you weren't familiar,
360 Promotions, they broadcast on UFC Fight Pass.
So for their guys. To come over to Zufa. No surprise.
Omar Trinidad. Got a late stoppage. In the 10th.
Looked the same way he always has. Which is not
very good. And. Yeah. In the main. Callum Walsh.
UD. Over Carlos Acampo. He UD'd against the guy
that Spence knocked out. That Tim Zu knocked
out to, I believe. And Fulgurum beat the shit
out of him for the full distance. Exactly. So,
this should tell you the level that Zufa's guy
is going to be. This whole fucking card is crazy.
Max Kellerman talking about how he's been waiting
for this shit his whole life. To watch Callum
Walsh. You would eat a fucking Errol Spence Jr.
victim. Gotta be kidding me. I mean, I don't
know. The whole thing just felt dull. You know?
All of it. The only good thing I can say about
this card was its camera. Okay? That's it. The
production quality. Exactly. But even then, it's
like they had the cards that were being put up.
33 and 3? What the fuck is that? It was excellent.
33 to 3. Perfect. I mean, hey. They gotta get
their shit together. All I gotta say. The statistics
that they were measuring were attacks, counters.
What? Like, counters, okay. I get it. I can dig
it. But attacks, what? Yeah, that shit don't
make sense. It does, but it makes sense in like
a UFC context, you know? But in boxing, I mean,
you know what I mean? But what do they classify
as an attack? Do they classify pity patter as
an attack? You know what I mean? Not a jab, not
a hook, no power punches. Fucking attack in general.
The fuck? Callum Walsh did not show us anything
we didn't already know about him. He has light
hands. And with Zufa moving him up to full middleweight,
because they don't do the middle ground divisions.
Allegedly, yes. They move them up to full middleweight.
And he looked like hot fucking garbage. He was
never that good to begin with. Just to think,
guys. It was half a decade ago that PBC gave
us both Charlo's on the same night for free.
If only we knew what we had then. People complained,
by the way. I'll tell you this. I think Dana
White's like Moses. For 360 promotions. I mean,
for the guys that... He's a savior. Oh, yeah,
for them, yeah. Yeah, because, I mean, these
guys at 360 Promotions weren't going to be worth
shit. Because it's... I mean, no, I'm not trying
to disrespect the fighters themselves, but the
actual promotional company is... Was worth dick.
Was worth dick. But then Dana White came and
led them to the Holy Land of being one of the
only... The only other promoter that's on an
actual... broadcasting they got broadcasting
rights in a sense not TV but on a streaming platform
that's not the AZN truth be told and clearly
because we are here sitting here recording this
fucking podcast to begin with we are we are among
the 1 % Of the hardcore fans, right? I have spent
time, more time than I care to admit, watching
360 Promotions fucking events. The only fighter
of any of their roster that I care about is Mizuki
Hiruta, the women's fighter. That she just does
these really crazy outfits. Yes, her outfit,
she is dripped up. Actually, I will say that.
She has fucking excellent walkout outfits, fight
outfits. She looks fucking immaculate. And that
is the peak of 360 promotions. I don't expect
Zufa to get into women's fights anytime soon.
Personally, I don't expect that they're going
to do that. So what happens with Mizuki? I don't
know. I hope she finds a better home than fucking
Zufa. MVP has been taking care of women's fighters
really well since their inception. Overall, for...
Like you said, the production quality was fantastic.
The cameras were high quality. They used great
camera angles and everything. That was about
as good as this whole show got. The panel was
fucking atrocious. The fighters themselves...
the attire really fucking bugs me that they're
limited to just picking the color of their trunks
and that's it. There was talk in Discord as we
were watching this fucking car crash about gloves.
And there were interesting questions about what's
going to happen with fighters picking their gloves.
Because there were guys picking Venom, Grants,
Kletos, all the usual suspects. And at the end,
Carlos Ocampo comes out with Zufa branded gloves.
And that to me... is a telling sign of what to
expect. No sponsorships on the trunks either.
Yeah, exactly. All you pick is the color. That's
all you get. That's brutal. Sounds like a dictatorship
to me. Aside from the obvious implications of
controlling a fighter's finances down to who's
allowed to give them money, it makes for a much
worse product to just not let these guys express
themselves. Because it's not like you're... It's
such a different sport to normal sports where
you follow a team or a league even. You follow
the individuals. You're a fan of the individuals.
And not letting them express themselves, even
in these basic ways, is very damaging to the
product. Guaranteed if Callum Walsh wanted some
fucking red, white, and blue shit for some fucking
reason, even though he's not even American. Oh,
like American -branded stuff. Yeah, they wanted
American -branded shit. Yeah, they'll let him
do that, but I doubt it. And it's not that I
expect or I... I don't expect that every fighter
is going to do the type of shit that Mizuki does.
Like, that is one end of the extreme. But this
is the opposite end where, like, who... These
are faceless fucking people coming out to punch
each other. There's no personality here. Even
their walkout attire was Zufa branded. uh yeah
they're they're going they're trying to ufc our
boxing and i don't like it yeah no i'm honestly
the fact that they're trying to control fighters
trunks is ridiculous i mean i feel like a good
way to get the sponsors is to do it on their
uh on the ropes if they want to go another route
but i mean i don't know if they're going to want
to show that you know from the back But that's
ridiculous how they don't want a fighter's freedom.
You know, the fucking ring is full of sponsors.
Why can't the trunks? You know? Something interesting
Shanada pointed out that I just remembered. The
fighter's shoes, even those were not limited
to brand, but they were limited to color. It
was pretty much just black or white shoes. That's
all you got. That's fucking ridiculous, though.
It's a fighter's choice of what the fuck they
want to wear. The reason why they have these
customizations, the reason why they do these
walkouts, a big part of it is because it could
be their very last moments on Earth. You know?
Yeah. Give them their time to shine, their time
to express themselves, and leave a lasting impression
on the people. If they do die in the ring, on
who they were as a person creatively in their
life. I know it sounds like I'm fucking reaching,
but, I mean, these guys walk out with their music
to hype them up and to show off what kind of
person they are, you know? Rich Taurus walks
out to Beethoven type shit, you know? He walks
out to classical music. I know it doesn't have
to do with Trunks, but I mean, these guys, like
Stephen Fulton. Stephen Fulton or Tims. That's
fucking crazy. But it's a cultural message. You
know what I mean? It's who he is. And if you're
not going to allow that, then you're just not
allowing a fighter to express themselves before
they fucking possibly pass away in the ring.
steven nelson when he wore the um the shit makes
me laugh every time but the like the sagging
jean shorts trunks like the the trunks had a
like boxers showing and sagged jeans as the pattern
that shit is just way too funny like what uh
yeah and the the uh m bison attire that he had
it's just too good like why do you want to get
rid of that yeah I mean stay where you want to
be sponsored but for creativity go fuck yourself
and if you're going to take away the pageantry
which is I would expect most fans, like, if you're
going to take away the pageantry, then you better,
at the very least, be putting on good fights.
Which is not the case. You're kind of scraping
the bottom of the barrel here with fucking...
The luck is that 360 Promotions was already part
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Moving on. Saturday, January 24th. Real shit
went down. Zayquin Moses starting at the bottom.
He got a UD over Leandro Medina. Zayquin is another
grade A prospect. I believe he trains with...
He's related to Shakur Stevenson, I think they
were saying. But regardless, he trains with Shakur.
I think he's in the BOMAC gym. So, Zayquin was
excellent to watch. Oh, man. Speaking of fighter
personalities, Omari Jones walks out to... Michael
Jackson every time. He beat the shit out of Jerome
Baxter for six rounds. Good fight, I'll say.
Decent. Decent showing of weight and kibble of.
I'm surprised that Amari didn't get the stoppage.
He was close to a couple times. Yeah, exactly.
I guess he's just the guy who fought with his
stuff. Oh, boy. Israel Madrimov, also a UD over
Luis Salazar. Madrimov decided to turn it up
in the last round and a half. Yeah. Oh, shit.
I'm already ranting. I've been doing some listening
right now. It's nice. I don't have much to rant
about. I went on the rant about the creativity
and then you guys added on. It was good. I'm
going to start with you. I'm about to, though.
We got the light heavyweight show. Oh, yeah.
Yeah, like Israel Madrimov, this was supposed
to be him showing that he's back. There was all
that talk about him being sick. with the Virgil
Ortiz fight. So this was supposed to be like
the return and he, he turned in what was clearly
like a one -sided performance, but not very impressive
for who we thought Madrimov was or is. You could
have a dominant, but mediocre performance. Yeah.
It's very possible. You could be dominant the
whole time, but you can't, if you don't knock
him out or if he, if he looks even. even a little
bit good in some cases, then you just put up
a mediocre performance against a guy that you
should have either knocked out or dominated.
Should have handled that with ease. He did handle
it with ease, but, like, dude, you could have
done more. He could have tried a bit more. Yeah.
I'm not gonna say this is the end of Madrimov,
but I would say I would say put him up there
with another top 15. If he loses, then he's done.
That's fair. Oh, shit. Speaking of fair, question
mark. Khalil Coe, majority decision over Jesse
Hart. Josh, you said you wanted to say a bit
about this one. Oh, Jesus Christ. Like... Man,
how many times is this guy going to blow weight?
How many times? Yes. This has been a consistent
issue. This has been a reoccurring issue where
he just doesn't give a fuck about weight limits.
I wouldn't say he's at the level to be fucking
off about weight. So he just doesn't, he just
is not giving a fuck about the weight. And it's
really just not what it is. Like just why, like
you're not good enough. And it's just like, it's
so difficult to actually gauge his level when
he's, well, you could gauge it pretty well considering
heart kind of, other than getting tired in the
point deduction. Kind of outboxed him pretty
cleanly. But. Like. It's just. Like. He should
take this as a loss. Regardless of the result.
Because Jesse Hart is. Old. And. Also. Not. All
that. And I've just. I've kind of had it with
Coe. I don't want to see. I don't even want to
see him like. Show up again. Like I want him.
Down on club shows. Because. Like, a prospect
who can't be fucked to make weight is, especially
at, like, 29 years old with nothing that impressive
is just, it's not something I'm too interested
in. Also, he's, like what you said, he's 29 fucking
years old acting like he is, he has all the time
in the world to be doing these antics. Buddy,
your time is running out. He's not going to get
a world title shot if he can't make weight. Exactly.
Nobody's going to want to fight him. He's not
good enough to even beat any of the champs. Even
if he does make weight. He's not even ranked,
I think. No, because he did throw away his USA
light heavyweight title by blowing weight this
time. Fucking ridiculous. Like, it's just...
They're literally just pissing money down the
toilet. Like, this is a guy who should be in
Zufa. And not anywhere near legitimate promotions.
Send his ass to fucking Zufa. He's making a mockery
of the sport. I mean, even Eddie Hearns sounds
like he's tired of them. I generally think that
this is either his last fight with Mashroom or
his second to last fight. But honestly, I just
genuinely don't think it's good. Eddie's going
to send him up the toilet with someone who's
actually okay. Yeah, because, I mean, he already
got knocked out, too. He might be the Ben Whittaker
victim we've been looking for. Oh, baby, Ben
Whittaker. That would be a damn good fight to
watch. Who would I want to see get knocked out
more, a British shit -talker? That is a Ben Whittaker
highlight reel. I mean, honestly, I hope it's
not even that too bad of a win for Ben Whittaker.
I mean, that's actually a decent step up, I guess.
But I mean, like Ben Whitaker beating up on a
guy who can't make weight is like, sure. I'm
happy with that. But I don't know. Is this a
question of discipline or just a question of
what? Because honestly, I just think he lacks
discipline. I don't think it's discipline specifically
because discipline, if he were disciplined. Maybe
it is discipline, actually, now that I'm thinking
about it. Because Jesse Hart, I feel, genuinely
beat him, regardless of the antics. So, I don't
know. Even if he shows up, he has to show up
dialed in in camp. And he has to show up dialed
in in the fight. How many fucking steps of dialed
in is this guy lacking? And, yeah, you're right.
You're right. It's a lack of discipline. And
I think that it extends beyond the ring. Well,
in the ring, too, that lack of discipline also
adds on to his lack of stamina, which is why
he lost to Gallegos, which is also why, in my
opinion, he lost to Hart. He didn't win the fight.
I know that for sure. I mean... You could make
the case for a draw, but I don't want to call
robbery, but that card was fucking bullshit.
That was a pretty bullshit card they gave him.
They wanted his ass to win to keep his record
straight, but what are you going to do about
it? We knew it was going to happen. Leo, you
and I both said that this shit was going to happen.
Yeah. They were going to job Jesse from the beginning,
unfortunately. Yeah. Oh, shit. That's more time
than Khalil Coe deserves. On to what was, I think,
an early fight of the year contender. Ray Moritaya
just edges by. Andy Cruz to retain his IBF lightweight
title. First things first, the 118 -110, whoever
turned that in, I would very much like to talk
to you. And I would like to hear what your rationale
is. Oh, Tim, cheat him. Excellent. Yeah. It's
always Tim, fucking cheat him. Yeah. But it was...
It was a solid, uh, solid affair, but just both
guys did good work. Uh, it was clear. Andy Cruz
was not ready for like the, the championship
rounds. Cause he's never had to go that distance
before. And it showed it down the line. I really
think he just expected more tired to fold at
some point. They just didn't. Well, I got power
apparently too. I got to say this, that honestly,
we can't pretend that we all thought Andy Cruz
was going to win or Andy Cruz was going to lose.
But at the same time, I didn't think Moritaya
would look that good in the ring. No, he definitely
stepped up. One thing about, I will say this
as I spoke up last time, I made the case for
Raymond Moritaya that if he did step up the fight
and put on the pressure, he has a better chance.
But I honestly didn't think he was going to do
that. He did. I also knew that Andy... Andy Cruz
against his questionable performance against
Antonio Moran would kind of play on this fight
too. He got tagged a good amount with shit that
he should not have been tagged with if he was
a elite fighter. You know? He did that amateur
tell where he got hit and he shook his head.
The fuck is that? Dude, he got hit. Yeah, what
the hell, dude? Rey put up a damn good fight.
I got to give all the credit to the world. I
didn't even think he was going to win. But I
was rooting for him, and I'm happy he won. He
retained his title. In my eyes, he's a full champion
at this point. He defended against a decent opponent,
I will say. But we'll see what happens with him
in the future. I actually honestly look forward
to seeing Rey in another fight that... is of
equal caliber of an opponent to Andy Cruz. Raymond
Morita is a pretty fun fighter to watch when
he steps on the gas. Another, too, is a sense
of good narrative that Robert Garcia beat Bozy.
And honestly, I feel like a big difference in
this fight, too, is the trainers. I'm not trying
to glaze, but... I feel like what really helped
Murata win the fight was his trainer. Because
I feel like he was able to listen to Robert and
Robert had more clear instructions rather than
Bozy. Bozy kind of just kind of gave vague shit.
Robert Garcia buff. It's a real thing. Yeah,
Robert Garcia, he's a veteran of this shit. And
I think that's also kind of what edged it out
in this fight. When shit got tough, Robert told
Ray what to do. Bozy kind of just said, hey,
fucking do better. Do it for your family. Do
it for your country. Shut up about that shit,
dude. Yeah, that's very vague. A fighter doesn't
need that. I feel like watching this fight play
out is kind of giving a hint to what could happen
with Virgil and Boots. Now, I'm not saying it's
going to play out exactly like that, but honestly,
the way they fought, is going to be somewhat
similar because they're trained by the same person.
Obviously, they're not going to be the same fight,
but obviously, Buta's better than Andy Cruz,
and Virgil's better than Ray Bortaya, but you
can see what's going to happen in the corner
of the ring. And Bozy, Stephen Fulton, turned
in that dud against Oshaki Foster. Oh, Jesus
Christ. That one still makes me mad. Absolute
goose egg. Fucking just the terrible showing
at the weigh -in, obviously, and then not just
absolute garbage in the fight as well. So maybe
Bozy isn't as good of a trainer as we thought.
Hey, I gotta give it to Bozy. He fucking made
a Brit. A Philly man. Oh, yeah, Caterall. You're
right. I was going to say, I feel like there's
unique... Cruz is different, but I feel like
there's a unique case in regards to Fulton showing
up and just looking that bad. There's nothing
a trainer can do to motivate a guy out of looking
that shitty. And regarding Boots, that being
said, he might not be as good of a trainer as
we thought. I mean, Boots is a generational talent
that literally came out of his nuts. He might
just be the American version of Eddie Reynoso.
You have a generational talent? That's Virgil
Hunter, though. Yeah, Virgil Hunter did that,
too. Virgil Hunter had Andre Ward walk through
his doors, too. Yeah. At the same time, I'm not
going to call Bozy a bad trainer yet. I still
feel like he's got some work to do. He's kind
of new in the training game. He kind of came
up on the scene recently, whereas Robert's been
training fighters since, what, the early 2000s?
Yeah. So it's going to take time for him to become
the level Robert, but we'll see. Overall, this
is Ray's night. All the credit of the evening
goes to him. I think a good fight with Ray would
be William Cepeda. That would be a damn good
fight with him. Honestly, even a fight with Floyd
Schofield would be nice. You could also do a
unification bout with Abdullah Mason. Good fight.
In the IBF, so Ray obviously is the IBF champ.
Right now, it hasn't been updated yet. Number
one, Andy Cruz. Number two, vacant. Three, Schofield.
Four, Mark Maxayo. Five, Lucas Body. Of the three,
four, five, Floyd Schofield's a fucking excellent
pick for a title defense. For Schofield, I feel
like that would be kind of an unsafe decision
depending on who's going to be fighting for the
WBA route. Because he's going to become WBA champ
soon. Depending on the person he fights. Because
he held the interim belt for the WBA. He's number
one in the WBA ranking right now. He might have
that interim belt. Yeah, he might just get that
shit. Yeah. If he even fights again, because
Jesus Christ, he hasn't fought in a while. Hopefully.
I think Abdullah Mason has to fight Joe Cordina
next. Joe Cordina. Yeah, he beat Gabe Flores
on the Pacheco. Lush. To become mandatory? I
believe so. It was for Rankings. Well, at the
very least. Hey, Cordina, you saw what happened
with your buddy. Can you make magic happen? I
don't know. I doubt it. If Nox couldn't do it,
I really doubt Cordina could. Yeah. Cordina is
not the same Cordina as we once saw. It's not
the same guy. Ray's options are... With the IBF,
we all know they're really strict. So his options
are pretty limited. Schofield is probably...
I would say that's a good fight. McSio... McSio
can show up and spoil parties. So not a bad fight
either. Lucas Boddy, I'm not sure what to make
of him. He had that one hitter with Ashton Silva,
was it? Ashton Silva, yes, the Jake Paul prospect.
But before that, he wasn't all that awesome.
Ashton Silva was also just putting a beating
on him prior to. Yeah. the one hitter he was
losing until he won yeah um but yeah those are
his top prospects uh gervonta davis was stripped
finally yeah the i saw somewhere that uh lamont
roach was gonna be in their vacant fight against
somebody but i don't remember where i saw that
Andy Cruz. Where does he go from here? Because
this was not a bad loss. I don't think he...
There should be no shame in this. I think he
should fight a couple 10 -rounders. Yes. Get
an easy fight under your belt first. I would
say maybe against... Yeah, that too. I would
say maybe against Jojo Diaz. Or... Yeah, I know
that sounds funny, but, like, genuinely, like,
he needs a confidence booster. I guess maybe
even Regis Progray. That would be a pretty decent
fight for him. Yeah. Oh, Regis Progray is at
140 now. Yeah. They're both at 140. Hmm. Let
me think. What was that guy that fought Pitbull
a couple years ago? Tall guy? I don't know. Fight
Gustavo Lemos. Fight someone. Adam Azim. Jose
Pedraza. Oh, I don't know about that. Jose Pedraza.
Just to build him up name. Giovanni Cabrera.
He could fight Giovanni Cabrera. Is that who
you meant by tall guy? Yeah, tall pit bull guy.
Yeah. Yeah, Giovanni Cabrera. He could fight
a lot of guys. I think he could win. Definitely
not someone in the top 10. You got to build yourself
back up, buddy. You are a 30 -year -old fighter
that doesn't have a lot of time. He's 6 -1 at
30 years old. You don't got a lot of time. Yeah.
You're Cuban, though, so you might, you know.
Ageless wonder. Yeah. But he's also an athletic
Cuban with... Not a lot of power. He might be
going down the Areslandi -Lara route where he's
old, but he has power. I doubt it. Yeah, Lara
had power, even though he never used it. He's
only recently started to because age and athleticism
don't mix. But anything more for the matchroom
card? We got to keep it rolling. damn good fight
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unfortunately. But we'll try to breeze through
these, I guess. Friday, February 6th. Matchroom
on DAZN. As of this moment, I have not seen what
is on the undercard for this. I've checked every
source I could think of. Christian Medina versus
Adrian Curiel for the WBO bantamweight title.
Fucking two Mexicans. You already know what you're
going to get. Might be a decent fight. It's going
to be fireworks, even if it's a little sloppy.
Yep. And on Saturday, February 7th, Queensberry
on DAZN in Liverpool. Oh boy, there's a lot of
stuff on this card and I am struggling to find
anything that I care about. Nick Ball versus
Brandon Figueroa for the WBA featherweight title.
This is a very... It would be funny for the meatball
to win. And I do enjoy a humorous victory. But
yeah, I would prefer for... Figueroa has access
to better talent for defenses. I will say Figueroa,
his last fight looked atrocious. It was not great.
So maybe he needed that fight to get some confidence,
but I don't know. Does he have it in him? I don't
know. I hope so. Well, we can't have the year
of the Brits if Figueroa wins. I'll tell you
this. If Ball wins, that's going to be a pretty
good name on his resume. Jesus Christ. It would
be. It would be solid. Figaro's only losses are
to Stephen Fulton. Adding yourself to that list
is a really nice accolade. Yeah. What I want
more than anything is for Nick Ball to fight
Rafael Espinosa. To unify titles. Espinosa's
like 6 '2". And Nick Ball's 5 '2". That would
be funny as fuck. Yeah. That's not going to happen.
Well, right now, top -ranked guys are being shopped
out, so... Oh, maybe. It's possible that Espinosa
gets sent to a Queensberry main event. We could
hope. That would be a damn good fight, though.
I think it's going to be a decent fight, too.
Yeah. Nick Paul, as much as we like to make fun
of him, he still puts up a decent effort, you
know. It's going to be British slop, but it's
going to be decent effort, British slop. I would
liken him to Isaac Cruz. But not figured out
yet. Yeah. Yeah, that's all we got on the fucking
horizon. It's a light weekend. This actually
because the only card we have on Saturday is
midday on the west coast of the US. This might
be a good time. to think about make a plan to
touch some grass. Yes. It'll be good for you.
It'll be good to go look at a tree. Go outside
and look at one. Smell the flowers. Yeah. Walk
your dog. We give life advice when there's no
boxing. It's fucking true. They say we're boxing
fans when we're telling you guys to not watch
boxing. Well, there's nothing on. All we got
is the Queensbury card in the middle of the day.
It's something. It is. It is. These are a lot
of Brit. It's a Brit slop card, unfortunately.
that doesn't mean there won't be entertaining
fights on it. I just don't know who these people
are. So I can't really tell you. Thus, once this
is over, this should be over like early evening
timeframe. So that would be a good time to, you
know, go somewhere outside. Well, on that pleasant
note. Alright. Social media shit. LVX Media Net.
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up. But there you go. With all that, we're heading
into Mexican slop and Brit slop. Not a great
weekend, but there's still boxing. Parting words.
Oh man, this is a boring week. That's all you
got to say? No, China forever. China forever.
Comrades. Kaleo Ko, to Zufa you fucking go. I'm
trying to find a good quote here. Fuck it, I'm
going with this. Bruce Lee. If you always put
limit on everything you do, physical or anything
else, it will spread into your work and into
your life. There are no limits. There are only
plateaus and you must not stay there. You must
go beyond them. No limit boxing. So that's nice.
All right. That's it for this edition of the
Boxing B -Sides. We will see you on the other
side. of Nick Ball and Figueroa.